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...warmer weather of spring has these Harvard researchers sweating over the tactics of animal rights activists who believe their experimental practices are unethical...
Natural ecosystems are the ancestral sources of species that we now manage for crop production. These evolved under climate regimes that are now being supplanted by new conditions, mostly warmer, some wetter, and some drier, and some rapidly alternating between wetter and drier. In many areas the unusually warm conditions of the last few years are bumping up against upper temperature limits for reproductive success and yield at harvest for some of our most important grain crops...
...Earth warms, more of its frozen water becomes liquid and more of its liquid water vaporizes, which can be carried a long way from the source since a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture. Where and how heavily this moisture falls as precipitation are other aspects of climate change that have enormous potential to tax our existing agricultural systems and urban infrastructure...
Environmental problems, unfortunately, are no longer local. They have expanded now to global scale. The end product of combustion of fossil fuels is carbon dioxide, which has the potential to alter global climate with implications for temperature, rainfall, and even for sea level. Warmer temperatures and uncertain supplies of precipitation can exacerbate the problems for those least equipped to cope. We have a moral imperative, I believe, to anticipate these problems and to do what we can to mitigate their consequences...
...realize that as the weather gets warmer, people are out and about more and need to become more vigilant of potential risks and take steps to avoid being victimized,” said Catalano...